If you find yourself asking, "What’s in it for me?" you may be struggling to find a good reason for changing your eating habits. As with goal setting, it’s important to have personal benefits that will motivate you to make changes.

Learn to make healthy eating choices and overcome barriers that keep you
from eating right. Healthy Eating Every Day offers a
step-by-step, sustainable, behavior-changing approach to eating for
improved health. This second edition has been updated throughout to
align with current U.S. dietary guidelines and MyPlate tools.

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Improve your health and quality of life through balanced eating! Healthy Eating Every Day is a practical, evidence-based program that teaches you how to improve your eating habits in ways that fit your lifestyle.

Inside, you’ll discover how to choose the right balance of the right foods, set realistic goals and rewards, and cope with triggers for unhealthy eating. You’ll also learn these useful skills:

Create food shopping lists that include healthy foods

Balance calories to achieve and maintain a healthy weight

Eat well when dining out or away from home

Set personal goals to help you reduce your sodium intake or increase the number of fruits and vegetables you eat

Healthy Eating Every Day contains checklists, charts, activities, and reminders to help you personalize the program and enjoy the process of learning how to eat healthy.

Newly updated with the most recent version of the national dietary guidelines and the latest nutrition science, Healthy Eating Every Day gives you the resources and confidence you need to improve your health by eating right.

The primary audience for this title is wellness providers at private
sector workplaces, community-based organizations (such as government
agencies, military installations, hospitals and health care providers,
public health organizations, and senior centers), community colleges,
and private organizations. A secondary audience is individual personal
trainers and wellness coaches.

Ruth Ann Carpenter, MS, RDN, is a consultant in health promotion
and instructional design. She is a registered dietitian with a master’s
degree in applied nutrition from Pennsylvania State University as well
as a master’s degree in instructional systems, with a focus in online
learning, from Florida State University. Carpenter directed the
nutrition education and research efforts at the Cooper Institute in
Dallas, Texas, for 22 years and was the codeveloper and a group
facilitator for the Lifestyle Nutrition Study, which served as the basis
for Healthy Living Every Day. She has coauthored six books,
including Active Living Every Day, Second Edition (Human
Kinetics, 2011) and has developed educational programs for clients such
as the American Heart Association, Kellogg’s, Tropicana, Jenny Craig,
the U.S. Navy, Roche, and the Illinois Department of Public Health. She
has served in numerous leadership positions in the Academy of Nutrition
and Dietetics, including chair of the weight management dietetic
practice group and coauthor of a physical activity toolkit for
dietitians.

Carrie Finley, MS, served as a project manager, data analyst, and
statistician in the research division at the Cooper Institute for 14
years. She has a bachelor of science degree in nutritional sciences from
Texas A&M University and a master of science degree in epidemiology from
the University of Texas–Houston school of public health. While with the
Cooper Institute, she assisted in the development of the curriculum for
the Lifestyle Nutrition Study, which served as the basis for Healthy
Living Every Day, while also facilitating group sessions. She also
helped direct a nutritional epidemiology project that collected and
analyzed dietary data to examine how dietary factors and fitness relate
to morbidity and mortality. She has published numerous articles in
peer-reviewed scientific journals and presented at many professional
conferences, including the American Heart Association Scientific
Sessions, Nutrition Week Conference, and American College of Sports
Medicine Annual Conference.